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My Line1 name suddenly changed to "msisdn1" !

Whenever I turn on my phone, I see the display, "My number: <number>". But when I started up my phone just now, I noticed it said "msisdn1: <number>" for some reason. I thought maybe the phone characters got garbled and decided to restart my phone - same thing again. I have an unlocked RAZR I'm using btw and when I went into phone status under tools, my line 1's name was changed to "msisdn1". I got rid of the name and restarted the phone and it went back to displaying "My number: <number>". Is this something T-Mobile might have done with one of their OTA messages and why? Just wondering if anyone had any similar experiences. Thanks.

msisdn is the tech term used by t-mobile, it just means mobile phone # in laymen terms

I see, so it's a T-Mobile thing. But does this mean this was done by an OTA or something? I got a couple of those in the last few weeks. And why would they relabel my line name? Would getting rid of the name affect anything bad, you think?